Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-529) and indexes
Introduction to the study of Plato / Richard Kraut -- Plato : the intellectual background / T.H. Irwin -- Stylometry and chronology / Leonard Brandwood -- Socrates and the early dialogues / Terry Penner -- Mathematical method and philosophical truth / Ian Mueller -- Inquiry in the Meno / Gail Fine -- Plato and Greek religion / Michael L. Morgan -- Platonic love / G.R.F. Ferrari -- Plato's metaphysical epistemology / Nicholas P. White -- The defense of justice in Plato's Republic / Richard Kraut -- Plato on poetic creativity / Elizabeth Asmis -- Good-bye to the third man / Constance C. Meinwald -- Plato's Sophist on false statements / Michael Frede -- Disintegration and restoration : pleasure and pain in Plato's Philebus / Dorothea Frede -- Plato's later political thought / Trevor J. Saunders
Fourteen specially-commissioned essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion